Chinese commerce giant Alibaba is developing a new artificial intelligence chip specifically designed for inferencing rather than training tasks. The new semiconductor, created by the company's cloud computing division, represents a significant advancement from its previous Hanguang 800 chip released in 2019. This reflects Chinese technology firms'
Microsoft will soon use Anthropic's AI technology for certain Office 365 applications, with an announcement planned in the coming weeks. This strategic shift indicates the software giant is diversifying its artificial intelligence portfolio after primarily relying on OpenAI technology for Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint applications. Microsoft has
Scale AI announced a multimillion-dollar deal with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on March 5, 2025, for the AI agent program Thunderforge to be used in U.S. military planning and operations. The agreement is spearheaded by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), which is the Pentagon's
The phenomenon of openwashing poses a serious threat to the AI industry, companies, and users alike, as more AI models falsely appear as open source. The Linux Foundation AI & Data Generative AI Commons recently created the Model Openness Framework, which defines three levels of openness to ensure genuine transparency.
Google released detailed data in August 2025 on the energy consumption, carbon emissions, and water usage of its Gemini AI system. Making this one of the most comprehensive disclosures from a tech giant like Google about AI's environmental impact. The company applied a comprehensive methodology when calculating consumption
OpenAI's study published on September 5th demonstrates that large language models' hallucination problems stem from current evaluation methods that reward guessing instead of expressing uncertainty. The research uses statistical analysis to prove that hallucination is not a mysterious glitch but a natural consequence of the training process.
The OECD's August 2025 analysis of AI openness reveals that traditional "open source" terminology does not fully capture the complexities specific to AI systems. The study published in August 2025 demonstrates that AI openness exists on a spectrum from fully closed systems with restricted access to
Musk announced Macrohard, a purely AI-based software company operating under xAI, on August 22, 2025, posing a direct challenge to Microsoft. The venture's name is a play on words that pokes fun at Microsoft, though Musk emphasized that the project is genuine and serious. The entrepreneur stated that
Albania made history in September 2025 by appointing Diella, the world's first artificial intelligence-generated minister, who will oversee public procurement to eliminate corruption. The announcement came during the presentation of Prime Minister Edi Rama's new cabinet, following his historic fourth mandate secured in the May 2025
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its new 685-billion parameter V3.1 artificial intelligence model on August 19, 2025. This system directly challenges American AI giants, as the model uploaded to the Hugging Face platform achieved a 71.6% score on the Aider coding benchmark. This result surpasses Claude Opus 4&
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the Trump administration's plan on August 19, 2025. The government intends to convert federal funding pledged to Intel under the CHIPS Act into an equity stake. According to Bloomberg, the planned 10% stake would make the US government Intel's largest
The Australian arm of KPMG has developed a highly efficient agentic system using a 100-page prompt that generates tax advice documents in one day instead of two weeks. The consultancy firm's digital transformation accelerated significantly after ChatGPT's debut in late 2022, although initial experiments revealed security
